<\/p>\n
This is my mouth<\/p>\n
These are my teeth<\/p>\n
This is my tongue<\/p>\n
Gums<\/p>\n
Lips<\/p>\n
Saliva<\/p>\n
Tape it shut<\/p>\n
Fill it up<\/p>\n
Dry it out<\/p>\n
Whatever you do<\/p>\n
Keep it quiet<\/p>\n
So you can continue to tell my story<\/p>\n
So you can continue<\/p>\n
To speak for me<\/p>\n
So you can continue<\/p>\n
To be the voice for the voiceless<\/p>\n
Because like a cow or a dog<\/p>\n
I, of course, have no voice<\/p>\n
Trafficked<\/p>\n
Abused<\/p>\n
Coerced<\/p>\n
These are the words you love<\/p>\n
You feminist abolitionists who,<\/p>\n
Even when I tell you why<\/p>\n
Even when my colleagues and I<\/p>\n
We use our voice<\/p>\n
You go on spreading your misinformed lies<\/p>\n
Tell me that<\/p>\n
I only feel the way I do<\/p>\n
Is because I am damaged<\/p>\n
Brainwashed and broken<\/p>\n
You can’t see<\/p>\n
How is what is not right for you<\/p>\n
Might be perfect for me.<\/p>\n
My clients aren’t the danger<\/p>\n
The men I meet in hotel rooms and I<\/p>\n
Are mutual healers<\/p>\n
Accepting each others fetishes and existence<\/p>\n
The danger is you<\/p>\n
Ever present mouthpiece<\/p>\n
No ears, just crocodile tears<\/p>\n
Spreading the stigma<\/p>\n
That women like me<\/p>\n
possess no sense of self or self respect.<\/p>\n
We’re all addicted, diseased, have early deaths<\/p>\n
Instead of listening<\/p>\n
to the diverse reality of us<\/p>\n
Our mixed backgrounds and experiences<\/p>\n
Mouthpiece with no ears<\/p>\n
Puckered lips<\/p>\n
You are just a big asshole, really<\/p>\n
Trying to control me<\/p>\n
And legislate my sexuality away<\/p>\n
What about you?<\/p>\n
How much do you get paid?<\/p>\n
Don’t you feel degraded by your job?<\/p>\n
How can you be a feminist and do what you do?<\/p>\n
Don’t you worry about finding someone to love you?<\/p>\n
How does it feel,<\/p>\n
this interrogation by a stranger?<\/p>\n
And why should it matter what I answer?<\/p>\n
You have already formed your opinion about ‘my kind of woman’<\/p>\n
Maybe instead of being my mouthpiece<\/p>\n
You should focus on making a space<\/p>\n
For me to use<\/p>\n
my mouth.<\/p>\n
-Hannah Morgenstern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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